What does the speaker when he says "my brother's sons are gathering stalk and root"?

How were computers in the 1950s and 1960s different from computers of today? they were much smaller. they were much faster. they cost less money they were bigger and slower.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

Based on this excerpt the authors are most likely to attempt to answer which question